Ph.D. in Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002),with Minor in American Indian Studies Program (graduate advisor William Cronon; supported by fellowships from the Udall Foundation and U.W. Foundation.)

Co-founder of Midwest Treaty Networkto support WI Ojibwe spearfishers attacked for exercising their treaty rights, and then to bring together the tribes and white sportfishing groups to protect the fish from mining projects, 1989-2005. Active in Black Hills Alliance against uranium mining in SD, 1978-80. Support for Standing Rock blockade of oil pipeline, 2016.